page_title: Afshin Peyrovani
section_title: Coaching career
hierarchical_section_title: Afshin Peyrovani / Coaching career
caption_attribution_description: English: Afshin Peyrovani, Executive director of Iran national football team in training
context_page_description: Mohammad Ali "Afshin" Peyrovani is a retired Iranian footballer and a football coach. He is the younger brother of Gholam Peyrovani and elder brother of Amir Hossein Peyrovani. He is a Football Director at Perspolis and a former player. A versatile player, he played in several positions throughout his career, including as a central defender and right defender. Throughout his club career, he played for Perspolis and Peykan and won Iran league for Fifth time. Following his retirement, he also served as a manager for Perspolis.
  A former Iran national, he played in the 1998 World Cup, as well as the team that finished third In the 1996 Asian Cup.
context_section_description: After the departure of Afshin Ghotbi in November 2008 he was appointed as the head coach of Persepolis F.C. and was replaced and became the assistant coach of Nelo Vingada in mid February 2009 and a month later he was sacked totally by the chairman.
  He replaced Hamid Estili as the head coach of Steel Azin on 19 April 2010 and later on for the season after he was again appointed as the head coach of the team again which after poor results he resigned. On 6 November 2012, he was appointed as head coach of Azadegan League side Sang Ahan Bafq.
  As of  11 December 2010
caption: Peyrovani in 2014
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